makings: talent from HK and Taiwan pay all their effort to make this humorous ancient-action series of 2003!
Young Emperor Qian Long travels to misty and rainy Jiang-Nan seven times experiencing hostility vs. human sympathy, seeing all kinds of people, punishing the bad and fighting with bullies. At the brink of his life, someone resuces him. Qian Long also strives with all his might, settles disputes, and then every trouble leaves like fog and rain, and when he looks more carefully at the person in front of him, this is a heroine and a soul mate standing before him.

summary:
Emperor Qian Long(Benny Chan) inherits his throne at age 25 whose as bright and diligent as his ancestors. One day when Emperor Qian Long leading his royal officials and Queen(Charmaine Sheh) to pray in a temple, the entire group is ambushed by rebels of a "Sun-moon cult" which includes many powerful martial art warriors such as the cult leader's son Zhong Liang(Yang Chao) and Zi Xia(Charmaine Sheh). Luckily, no one's life is in peril but this attempted assassination startles Emperor Qian Long's fav pregnant Queen so she takes a herbal-medicine from a royal doctor to calm down yet she dies due to posioning from the medicine. Therefore, Qian Long is furious about this tragedy and makes an order to investigate this matter. At the same time, local rebellion is happening in China that troubles Qian Long and he has suspicion about his concubines conspiring with royal officials. Hence for the sake of the country, Qian Long decides to travel to Jiang-nan to get a better understanding of the people and inspecting the royal courts, bringing with him are body guard E Rong-an, scholar Ji Xiao-Lan and Lian Er(Liu Wei) who previously is the Queen's maid.

Swordswoman Zi Xia from "Sun-moon cult" arrives at Bao-Ding Province searching for the descendant Gu Zi-Jie(Jia Yi-Ping) of Gu Yan-Wu, a Ming Dyansty nobleman, hoping to rebel again. Qian long encounters Zi Xia who looks like his queen and the two fall in love at first sight, however, both do not know the other's identity. Meanwhile, Qian Long and his gang's money are stolen by Gu Zi-Jie but luckily there's a rich girl called Xiao-Yu(Yuki Hsu) who has the heart of a heroine helps them out to get the money back. From then on, Qian Long has a humourous and resourceful Gu Zi-Jie, and a mighty fighter, eloquent Xiao-Yu accompanying him on his journey to the south.

After Qian Long beheads a corrupt official in Bao-Ding Province, he becomes daring and vigorous thinking that administering and leveling the political structure is easy. When he arrives at Ji-Nan Province seeing famine everywhere, he flares up immediately before comprehending the entire picture of this matter, and uses a scheme to get the governor there to open up the food-barn to feed the hungry citizens. By doing this however, make things worse because it delays a military plan, forcing a honest governor to commit suicide with indignantly. Qian Long is very guilty and decides to travel down to the south all by himself while simultaneously, "Sun-moon cult" deploys tight encirclement to capture him.

In this test of strength, the conspiracy between "sun-moon cult" and "Na-Qin Duke" assassinating the queen exposed. Qian Long then finds out Zi Xia, the woman he loves is actually one of the rebels who want to assassinate the emperor! Queen mother of Qian Long continuously hurries Qian Long to establish Concubine De(Zhang Tong) as queen, basing only on a reason that Concubine De's father, a Mongol King having a huge impact on Qian Long's reign due to the mongol king's power. Yet, Concubine De in actuality is the killer who mudered the Queen. At the same time, Qian long's gang such as Ji Xiao-nan trying hard to persuade Qian Long to behead Zi Xia! Qian Long is so confused that suddenly he finds himself in a catch 22 situation...........

i've seen this series b4.... it is very nice and many parts from the series that make me learn more about the chinese emperor.. eventhough not as real as the acctual one in real life... but i get to now a little bit of the emperor's life....

does benny and charmaine speak mandarin in the show? is this a taiwanese or chinese production.

the one i watch is in mandarin...but i'm bot sure whether they have it in the cantonese version or not.... this show is really nice. meaningful and interesting....

i love this movie.......some parts were funny like with the guy and Yuki Tsui. But also when Benny first saw Charmaine and how he followed her around........they look so cute together

Great series. Benny's & Charmaine's characters are excellent...too bad their voice are dub But the series is quite interesting and better than what I had expected.

Does anyone know where i could see this serie? It seems so interesting especially BEnny and Charmaine are in it?

OOH I've seen this series. I saw this in Cantonese I think. Because if I saw this in mandarin, I would have had trouble understanding it and been upset because of the dubbed voices of Benny and Charmaine. Benny and Charmaine was great in this show. I think my mother just bought this series randomly. I thought not a lot of people would have heard of this show because it's not really a TVB produced show.

Charmaine and Benny were really great in this serie. They are very compatible I think. They look very cute together. The ending was a little confusing though.

I watched the version have cantonese and mandarion dubbed and finished the series. I thought the ending was alright.

This is a great series and I live the pairing of the two. Does anyone noe where I can dl this series? and does anyone have the opening and ending themes?

Does this series have a happy ending? I initially avoided it cuz the voices of Benny and Charmaine are dubbed in Canto!

This series doesn't really have a happy ending nor a sad ending...
[spoiler]it seemed like she was reborn and they met up again[/spoiler]

I only saw the mando version and their voices were dubbed in mando. I don't think they dubbed their voice in canto if u saw the canto version cuz they speak canto unless they had to overdub their voices because of the background sounds.

as they filmed this series.. benny was speaking mandarin while charmaine was speaking cantonese.. so one of their voices are dubbed either way

yeah, i was ultra confused by the ending... but, i guess it's one of those silly "well-why-don't-you-interpret-it-yourself" sort... i wouldn't peg the series as my favorite of all time or anything of the like, because it just seemed interminable. what a dragged-on series. surprisingly, benny acted rather well though.

hehe Benny prolly acted well because...*drum roll* Charmaine was in that series too...sometimes i think their is something going on between them and sometimes i just think Benny has a crush on Charm hehe..well its just my opinions though

I love this series because of Charm and Benny as a couple. If only they date for real.

lol I just finished the serie, I really like it, I think the ending was that charmine did not die and benny let her go.

I really like the ending theme by benny, wonder if anyone has it, can you give me the link if you do? thanks

how come this series never airs in hk? is it cause of the storyline is not great?

i've watched this series years back and personally quite like it eventhough it's a bit draggy in some episodes. Both of them acted very well. i liked most of the scenes with Benny and Charmaine together, very sweet.

I've never heard of this show before.

And well, can't find it on youtube either.

Just too bad.

does anyone knows where i can find this show??

Oh, I found the show on tudou.com

But you can only watch shows there if you have a really fast internet connection. And I mean, REALLY fast, otherwise it lags. (I use my laptop, so I have wireless connection, which is fast enough that I get to enjoy shows without downloading.)

hmmm...does anyone has the movie poster? i dont seem to find one on the internet....

it sounds very interesting.

I thought this series was pretty nice! It's pretty humorous at times, & kinda meaningful. Benny&Charmaine are nice. (:

i think they look REALLY good together. they make such a cute couple! i haven't watch this yet cause its in mandarin, but just to watch them togehter......perhaps i should give it a try

THEY LOOK GREAT TOGETHER. The main reason what i re watched it LOL. I was wondering what ep is when they were chopping the pork or the meat together and the part where there were fireworks and they were together? Im only up to ep 4. so i was just wondering.

this one with benny and chermaine was really good, they played couples in this serie and if this serie had more fighting scenes it would maked this one even better and I heard tha it was this serie who united benny and chermaine to be real couples

not sure if i have watched before. i hope i will be able watch it and it will be as good as everyone says

OR

But I thought this series is okay overall. Aside from the Benny & Charm chemistry, the rest are a bit of nonsense side. Sort of serious here and there. Maybe somewhat dragging at places. *shrugs*

This post has been edited by DTLCT: Jan 25 2008 6 29 PM